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‘Robbed’ not in the strictest sense, but yes there was theft at my house yesterday. The lovely dudes took away my Nikon D90 along with the 18-105 lens, and Dell XPS (my lovely old wife). Yes, I’d recently ditched my wife for a super hot Macbook Air, but she still was a companion. Polygamy...

For me, the very foundations of Hacker-dom is based on three very fundamental steps: 1. Grasp the fundamentals 2. Question everything 3. Question everything, without being a fanatic As ironical (or rather illuminating, depending on the way you see) it may sound; as I start my very first step to understand the fundamentals of...

Randy Pausch, fondly known as the Last Lecture Guy, is no more. If you have not heard of him, I suggest you watch his “last lecture”. A summary of the lecture and Randy Pausch’s life can be read here. p.s.: @Johnny: Thanks for updating me. @Slashdot-ters: Thanks for not making stupid and mean remarks...

I spent the first half of the day at SecurCamp -1 (or Security Barcamp). It always great to get together with the community and today was no different. It came a sweet surprise to me that I have quite a few acquaintances in the community. The best part of the whole day, however, was...

Slashdot is supposed to be a respectable (news) portal for geeks and nerds. It’s punch line says News for nerds, Stuff that matters. I must admit that there was a time when I used to start my day with Slashdot, trying not to miss even a single news. That phase, however, is over. The...

Those were the days when I used to be a Apple fan. aah.. the harsh reality that they produce nothing more than crippled products at sky-high prices. Moreover, Apple isn’t just about cut-throat business. It’s also about making people feel bad about themselves. Don’t trust me? See here yourself.

1. Life & Code (The title of this section is taken from Johnny’s blog of the same name, Life and Code. Although my implementation of the phrase isn’t in terms with Johnny’s, yet I could resist using it. 🙂 ) Life: Three days ago I found that there are some strange entries in my...

Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor. 🙂 1. YAWN Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for...

I am not sure if anyone is aware of it or not, so kindly spare me if it’s not NEW in the sense I wish to convey. (Or may b, you didn’t discover it the way I did) 😛 For no particular reason, I visited the windows update page today (using IE7) and got...

No Yahoo! hasn’t changed it’s name to Insane!. It’s just their behavior that has gone insane. If you’ve been a member of some online group for quite some time, chances are that the group is on Yahoo! Groups. Same with me. This story is concerned with my college batch online egroup. Yahoo! groups has...

The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end. MutLive reports: In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex,...

I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere...

It’s strange writing something like this using a service that’s owned by Google. 🙂But it was long overdue. There was a time when I used address Google as “Google God” :).Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their “Do no Evil” motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to...

The title may lure you to assume that I am going to talk about some security bug. Well, I am not… or I’d rather say I haven’t yet thought of any ways to exploit it. If you come up with something, do let us know. Now back to the topic. Almost all the huge...

Strange things happen to me all the time.When I came to the office a few hours ago, I came across JavaFX scripting language while reading random blogs. I found it pretty interesting and decided to check it out.So I added the module in my NetBeans IDE and started playing with it. Though I could...